1 ABSTRACT High and growing rates of unemployment have been a source of great frustration to policy-makers. Although exports have been buoyant and the 1990s has been the first decade of sustained growth, unemployment has been rising by 2 percentage points each year. If the expanded definition is used, the rate of unemployment reached 41.8% in September 2002. In a context where the majority of t...

This study assessed whether attendance rates in a workplace predicted subsequent outcome of employment-based reinforcement of cocaine abstinence. Unemployed adults in Baltimore methadone programs who used cocaine (N=111) could work in a workplace for 4 hr every weekday and earn $10.00 per hour in vouchers for 26 weeks. During an induction period, participants provided urine samples but could wo...

1. INTRODUCTION: MAKING MONEY. With a title like this, one might expect to find described here some unsolved problem assigned a decidedly paltry bounty by a strapped mathematical institute, or perhaps a pet question from an eccentric, but thrifty, individual. Indeed, this is an article about how to make money, but it is not at all about some scheme to earn income. Rather, it concerns how actual...

This study uses American Community Survey data to examine the impact of Great Recession on college graduates majoring in arts. Arts play important roles an economy, through both artistic creation and careers outside While took a significant toll US economy generally, arts majors faced additional vulnerabilities as industries that rely discretionary spending, like entertainment, are especially h...

This paper considers a simple model of credit cycles driven by moral hazard in financial intermediation. Financial agents or bankers must earn moral-hazard rents, but the cost of these rents can be efficiently spread over an agent's entire career, by promising large late-career rewards if the agent has a consistently successful record. Dynamic interactions among different generations of financi...

A large gap exists between the concerns over risks of climate change and support needed for effective actions. We show that participating in a market where individuals make predictions on future outcomes earn money can attitudes, behaviour knowledge.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the most commonly diagnosed neurological disorder in children. Adults with ASD have some of the poorest employment outcomes in comparison to others with disabilities. While data in Canada is limited, roughly 25 per cent of Americans living with ASD are employed and no more than six per cent are competitively employed. Most earn less than the national minimum ho...

This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. We do not find much evidence that employment or wages were significantly a...